{"id":906,"date":"2003-11-03T20:11:42","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T20:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/11\/03\/plaxo_and_spam.html"},"modified":"2003-11-03T20:11:42","modified_gmt":"2003-11-03T20:11:42","slug":"plaxo_and_spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/11\/03\/plaxo_and_spam.html","title":{"rendered":"plaxo and ?spam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve received a few dozen requests for contact information via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plaxo.com\/\">Plaxo<\/a> now.  In theory, this sounds brilliant.  Having just lost my cell phone and corrupted my addressbook, i&#8217;ve been begging folks to write to me with their phone, address, and birthday (*hint*hint*).<\/p>\n<p>But something is amiss.  Out of all of these requests, i&#8217;ve only *recognized* the names of 3 people who requested my information (including the one today).  I get these blank requests from people asking for my contact information.  No explanation.  Perhaps we know each other via research or blogs, but there is no note or qualifier.  It&#8217;s really odd.  Besides, many of them are using email addresses that are either dead or from my website (not the ones that i normally use to write to people).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided that i&#8217;m not going to put my data in Plaxo for anyone, whether i know them or not.  I just don&#8217;t really feel comfortable with the fact that so many of the people who ask me for Plaxo contact information are completely foreign to me.  Am i being weird?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve received a few dozen requests for contact information via Plaxo now. In theory, this sounds brilliant. Having just lost my cell phone and corrupted my addressbook, i&#8217;ve been begging folks to write to me with their phone, address, and birthday (*hint*hint*). But something is amiss. Out of all of these requests, i&#8217;ve only *recognized* [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}